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This tutorial is about making a soap holder and body scrubber. And basically, you’re going to make the pouch and the soap just fills in the inside and you can use this and depending on the materials that you choose, you just actually just have to use this on your body, so it’s a great exfoliator and as the soap wears down, you can just open it up on the top and add more soap into it. And apparently it’s a soap saver because after you’re done, you just hang it up on the end like soap on a rope there darling, so let’s get started with this tutorial. This tutorial is for absolute beginners and there is no funny tricks or anything and is such a wonderful gift.

If you look in the More Information provided in this particular tutorial, you’re going to find a link in order to find this particular pattern. So, please don’t email me, just look for the More Information and I will provide the link to you. First of all, what we’re going to is we’re going to start our crochet just like a normal slip knot and the type of material is stated in the actual pattern and you’re going to want something. If you want a soft one, this would be like cotton, so this would be softer. But you can use acrylic kind of wools if you want more of an exfoliation scrub kind of idea.

So, let’s go again to wrap and wrap in the back over the front. You pull that one up, it bounce back and there is your first slip knot and I have videos on that if you need to go slower now.

What we’re going to do is we’re going start off with the chaining of six. So, this already counts as one; so let’s go two, three, four, five and six. And what we’re going to do now, it’s called the slip stitch. And what we’re going to do is just stick your needle in the first stitch that you did, just like so. Grab the material, pull it through that one. Put your finger underneath like so, so that you know where the center is and continue to pull it through. So, there is the actual center of your circle and this is your straggler here, so you’re going to want just keep the amount just a little bit long. I will tell you so that you can cut that after if you have to.

It says a single stitch in the ring and then chain five. And then double crochet in the ring and then repeat five more times. So, let’s start off. So, we’re going to chain up one, to chain one and it says, single crochet in the ring. So, you go inside the center point, pull your material through. You have two left on your hook. So, you’re just going to pull through and now it says chain five. And what I would ladies and gentlemen is to hold it here with your finger just like right there. Hold that there so it doesn’t get all twisted up and it says to do a double crochet in the ring. So, just wrap in your material around, not letting with that particular finger. So, to wrap it and then going into the center of the ring, pulling it through, pull through two and two and by holding it with your finger up here, it prevents if from getting all tangled up.

Now, it says to repeat this five more times. So, let’s start off again. So, single crochet in the ring. And now, let’s chain five. And now it’s double crochet in the ring. So, put your finger there, trap it. Go into the ring, pulling through, pull through two and two. So, that is repeat again, so single crochet into the ring and then five, holding it, going into the ring. See the straggler? What I’ve done is I’ve just put it on top of the ring as I am going along. So, I am kind of trapping it into position. To pull through and now the next one again, so single crochet into the ring, chain five, holding it, wrap, going in to the ring, pull through two and two. So, you’ll end up with six of these particular pieces all the way around, so now we have four, so we’d have to put two more. So, single crochet into the ring and now, chain five. Holding it into the ring, pull through two and now, we have five, we want six. So, let’s go again. So, single crochet into the ring, chain five and then double crochet into the ring.

Now, it’s asking us to slip stitch and would come back to the center point and we’re going to slip stitch right into this section right here. Okay, that’s our very first stitch, so we’re just going to stick our needle through. Pull it through and through. So now, you kind of got like a flower like thing going along and this is the very bottom of the actual soap ring there that you see.

So, let’s start off with your next, one going all the away around. So, what we’re going to do and now it says for around two slip stitch in the first which we’ve already done. So, what we’re going to do is slip stitch or we’re going to do a single crochet just go into the very first single crochet in and then chain five. And now, we’re going to double crochet into that same one that we just did. So, we’re single crocheting on the one side, double crocheting on the other. See, that kind of got tangled up, so let’s try it again. So, just holding it there with your finger, it’s important that you do that. It saves it from getting all tangled up for you.

So now, we’re going to jump to the very next one here. So, we’re going to single crochet into the very next one and then chain five. And then our double crochet into that same one. So, we’re single crocheting on the one side of it, chaining five and then double crocheting on the other. So, coming to the next one, single crochet in, chain five. And then we’re on the other side of this, so we’re double crocheting. So, hold it down with your finger. So now, we’re going to jump to the next one, single crochet in. So, going to other side of that same one, so we’re going to double crochet in. Try that again, go wrap in.

It’s kind of like lace work, so end up with a lot of holes but you need that for this particular project. So, we just did double crochets, so the next one is a single crochet, so the next one is single crochet in. And now we’re double crocheting into the other side, that same one. And you can really tell when you come back around, so we haven’t gone all the way around yet. So, a single crochet into the next one. And then we’re double crocheting into the other side of that one. And you can tell now, I’ve come back to the very center, so what we can do is we just slip stitch it. So, going in, this is the very start one here. We’re just going to go in right there. Do you see that? So, we’re going to pull through and through. So there is what you got so far and the very next one because we’re not going anymore bigger, it’s going to start folding around to start forming the shape of the soap.

So, on a piece of paper now, I would write three, four, five, six and seven and as we go along, you’re just going to want to check it off that we’ve done it. So, let’s do that and we’re going to start off with our next round. This is round number three and we are going to be doing exactly the same that we did in the last round.

So, what we’re going to do is we’re just going to chain up. We’re just going to single crochet inside the first available one. So, single crochet in and then chain five. Now, we’re going to double crochet, so hold it down with your finger. And now, the next one, we’re just going to jump to it, so it’s just a one on the very outside, do you see that? So, just single crochet in and then chain five. And then hold it, double crochet into the same one. Okay, jumping to the next available one in the outside, single crochet; holding it, the same one. Let’s go into the next one, single crochet in. And you’re going to start noticing that it’s starting to bend towards you and that’s exactly what you’re looking for. Double crochet into the other side of it, okay going to the next one, single crochet it. And now let’s double crochet, so holding it, next one, single crochet, double crochet into the other side of that same one. Now, we’ve come back to the starting point, so we’re just going to slip stitch in. That’s where we started, so slip in, pull it through and through.

Okay, so that was round number three, so you’re going to want to do four, five, six and seven exact same way and I’ll meet you back on number seven. So, continue along with that and we’ll come back. And I’ll show you how to finish this bag off and we’ll do the chain.

Okay, so I’ve come in to the end of my seven, so I am just about to finish up, so what I want to do is I want to go back in and slip stitch right where—at the starting of the circle and pull through and grabbing your scissor, cutting over the hand like I always do and pulling that just like so. And because you are using this on your body, I would strongly recommend that you probably tie this thing right at the starting here, so just run it through and tie a knot. Let me do that one more time, same spot.

And now, what you're going to do is you’re going to weave the ends through, so just sticking your needle through the chain, and pulling it through, so pulling it through. Throw it back over the edge, now look at the chain and just go through the chain, pulling it through, moving you way down the chain. This is called weaving. Going in the chain again and pulling out through. And now, what I would recommend is tie another knot because if you don’t tie that, that eventually will come out because if you look at it, scrubbing on your body and stuff, it will come out. So, let’s tie that a knot. Let’s go into one more time and make that tied even better. And then grabbing your scissors and trimming that short but not completely.

And now, let’s start making our chain. So, there we go. So, you can see that is kind of like pouch. It’s exactly what you’re looking for. So, let’s make your chain in the chain, the one on my demonstration, it is 30 chains. So, we’re just start with the slip knot as normal, leaving a little extra on the end, just like so. And now, it’s chain in a row. Grabbing your scissors again, just going over the hand like they always do over the hand. You’re just going to take your needle and you’re just going to pull it out and you’re just going to pull that tight. See that? And now, going to the other side, you’re going to pull this tight. So, there is your string.

So, what we’re going to do is now is we’re just going to wrap it inside the few thing so. From the outside, just push it into the very first loop. Do you see that? Now, push it over the edge and bring that. This is the next one available, so bring that through the outside and now push it over to the edge again, rotating the material, going to the next one, pulling it out and pushing it back.

So now, what you’re going to just do, so you’re going to grab your soap. Put it inside. It’s got one more to do here. Got another one to do, so you just basically wrap it around the edge so that you can pull it tightly like a shoelace and then what we’re going to do is we’re going to take the ends and we’re going to tie them together. And you now, just trim those off and then you’ll pull the bag nice and tight and there you have it. This is your soap on a rope.

Mikey, from The Crochet Crowd, teaches crochet projects, stitches and tips. Learn by following along with him. All of the projects he teaches are free to use.
Whether you are learning to crochet for the first time and/or are looking for further ideas for inspiration. Mikey has it all.